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The Clankline is a weekly leaderboard for Clanker traders and investors. It ranks everyone by their Profit and Loss performance of their Clanker Portfolio. A new round starts every Wednesday and runs for 7 days. The leaderboard shows who traded and held the best clanker tokens for the week. Finding the inspirationOver the last one year, 0xpuneet and I built a series of small apps. Some born out of curiosity. Others just for fun. The inspiration of The Clankline came from a small mini app we b...

We're back with the 46th edition of Paragraph Picks, highlighting a few hand-selected pieces from the past couple of weeks.

During the long stillness of the pandemic I went deep into the oral epics. I read the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Aeneid and then their modern refactorings in Circe and Lavinia. What struck me was how each of these works began as a living river of words, carried on the tongues of countless tellers before they were ever written down. They were never fixed but always reshaped. This play between repetition and transformation is what gave them power. An epic is not a stone monument. It is a curren...

Picture this: you walk into city hall and it feels like stepping back into the age of typewriters. The same rituals, the same paper piles, the same council meetings where “public comment” means showing up on a Tuesday night to speak into a microphone for three minutes before anyone actually makes a decision. Even with Zoom layered on top, it’s still the same old play. The camera just lets you beam in to watch the theater from your couch instead of a plastic chair. You see it everywhere. Permi...

I am a simple intellectual. I have remixed Paragraph's "A Better Way for Ideas to Strengthen & Spread" into an experimental sound art piece in the Strudel REPL. I assigned sounds, silence; that is, noise and signal to each character, space, and punctuation mark. I did it by picking an Oblique Strategy from an original box thereof, reading a few lines off Rubin's Tetragrammaton, perusing the pages of a few John Cage book, and digging Aphex Twin's Soundcloud account. I have not borrowed anythin...

The term "missing middle" is typically used to refer to a missing scale in our built environment. It is that middle scale of housing between low-rise and high-rise. But there's another way to think about it and that is in terms of the market that the housing is serving. Over the last cycle, cities like Toronto saw a kind of "barbell" dynamic. Meaning, new supply tended to target the poles. It was delivering for young professionals and young couples on one end and for downsizers and wealthy re...

Hello again, It’s hard to believe that two months have already passed since I posted the introduction to the Enchovy Club. Today, I want to share what has been happening since then. One of our content creators recently expressed, “I have no idea what content to create because I don’t know this community is about.” Fair point. I’m not entirely sure myself, and I worry about defining things too early, much like deciding a baby’s fate at a doljabi ceremony. However, since it’s the weekend and I ...

Link to the Original Post in Korean at April 2022 Last weekend, a friend told me: “You’re going to end up working for yourself anyway. If you’re going to do it, just do it! And if you keep talking about it to those around you, they will keep you accountable.” Indeed, I have something in my mind for a while now. Ok. This is going to be a long story, so grab some popcorn. TL;DR? I want to build something like nonce, but in Yangyang. 1. The Business of Priorities (written early 2015) How am I go...

What is a memex?A personal memex is a personal wiki. A personal wiki is a personal digital garden. A personal digital garden is not a garden. I prefer to term it as a memex. A memex is utterly your responsibility. Should you want to surf the longevity escape velocity towards at least a textual future, you should treat your memex well. To preserve and maintain your intellect, and knowledge on the internet and what will come beyond and through it, you need to do some prepping starting from toda...

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Right now, most publishing platforms reward the act of publishing itself, but not the ongoing cycle of reading, engaging, and sharing. Here are few ideas on how Paragraph could nail this experience: Paragraph should optimize for the reader equally as well, it can introduce :Reader streaks: reward readers for daily/weekly engagement streaks with badges...

Frontier Stable Token (FRNT), the first state-issued stablecoin, is now live on Ethereum mainnet and six additional networks.

I’m thrilled to introduce Vibe Coding for VCs, an exclusive Build First x Company Ventures workshop designed to help investors go beyond the hype and actually build with AI. This four-hour, in-person session takes place in New York City on September 19. Learn more and RSVP through Build First (AI powered) or Luma (the classic way).What We’ll CoverHere’s the gist: Learning AI is not like learning how to use a new tool (like a calculator). It’s like learning a new language: One that requires fl...

Wordcel platforms live or die based on discovery. If there's nothing to read, readers bounce. If there are no readers, writers bounce. Some thoughts on how that might be solved enclosed.

seamless integration: the attached image is just an example. i have lost the count of the amount of times that i have bounced out of the paragraph miniapp because of a bug that breaks the flow. it feels that the person that created this miniapp doesn't use farcaster, or understand the potential of miniapps properly as an engaging extension of the TLget writers paid: i don't really know the answer to this, but the first time i streamed on retake made me 450 usd. this is epic. and what converts...

I’ve been out of the classroom for a few years and I’m working mostly with private sector companies and conference audiences. I see firsthand how schooling impacts our performance on the job and in life after we graduate. It isn’t pretty. I’m struck by the depth of our needs for motivation, leadership, and collaboration/ team communication. Not to mention health, curiosity, meaning, and the ability to more effectively use our tools. Understanding our minds, bodies, relationships, meaning, and...

At The ALANA Project, we continue celebrating the values that connect us as a community. Those values often refer to our community as a whole, but today, in our fourth number on the ALANA manifesto, we will be focusing on how "Respecting the Individual" matters equally. The ALANA manifesto encapsulates ALANA’s "10 Principles of a Good Community." The inspiration for these principles came during a thoughtful conversation with Dani, a fellow DAO member, where we reflected on how Dieter Rams’ “1...

The greatest league in the world is back with a bang. Gameweek 1 was filled with drama, exciting goals, last minute heartbreak, and Martin Dubravka getting punished for time wasting under the new rules. It's everything we love about the beautiful game and we're back to cover it all for another season. We look at some of the winners and losers of the opening weekend of games, from newly promoted teams to Manchester United attacking firepower.Winners: The Newly Promoted TeamsOver the last few y...